Slyck News – Slyck Interviews the MPAA > Without compromising our position on P2P, we took the view that perhaps it was time we heard what the MPAA had to say for themselves instead of only reading their views in court submissions. At the direction of Dan Glickman and with the kind assistance of Kori [...]
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To Fight RIAA Lawsuit Mom Solicits Donations
To Fight RIAA Lawsuit Mom Solicits Donations > My choice to fight the RIAAââ¬â¢s lawsuit was made when I received a call from a settlement center saying I’d already been sued. I assumed that once I explained to them that there was no music on my computer and that I never had purchased or signed [...]
MPAA in the Philippines
p2pnet.net – the original daily p2p and digital media news site > On December 20, the Motion Picture Association and Optical Media Board (OMB), with backup from Philippines National Police officers, again raided the notorious Bartertrade Mall in Quiapo, Manila, serving 110 warrants and seizing 942,000 pirated optical discs valued at an estimated US$1.8 million [...]
Animal Crossing Pokes At Piracy
Animal Crossing Pokes At Piracy News Story From 1UP.com > In spite of the open and free atmosphere of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing videogames, you don’t expect to come across social commentary within your conversations with the town animals, yet one player came across something curious from K.K. Slider, the guitar wielding dog that inhabits your [...]
More artists take a stand against DRM
More artists take a stand against DRM > The battle between artists and Sony BMG over the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) copy protection on audio CDs just got even more interesting as some more artists have decided to act. This time it is “My Morning Jacket”, who’s album “Z” is copy protected. They [...]
Kazaa facing new charges
Kazaa facing new charges – Breaking – Technology – smh.com.au > Kazaa executives will find themselves back in court next month, this time under contempt of court charges initiated by an alliance of more than 30 music labels in Australia seeking to stamp out internet music piracy. All of this because Kazaa decided to block [...]
Overpeer shuts down
Loudeye Corp.: News & Events: A Worldwide Leader in Business-to-Business Digital Media Solutions > Seattle, WA ââ¬â December 9, 2005 ââ¬â Loudeye Corp. (Nasdaq: LOUD), a worldwide leader in business-to-business digital media solutions, today announced an important step in its effort to focus its business and reduce its cost structure. Loudeye announced that Overpeer, Inc., [...]
Buy, Play, Trade, Repeat
Buy, Play, Trade, Repeat – New York Times > THE record company Sony BMG recently got in trouble after attempting to stem piracy by encoding its CD’s with software meant to limit how many copies can be made of the discs. It turned out that the copy-protection software exposed consumers’ computers to Internet viruses, forcing [...]
New Sony CD security risk found
New Sony CD security risk found | CNET News.com > Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital rights group jointly announced Tuesday that they had found, and fixed, a new computer security risk associated with some of the record label’s CDs. The fun never stops! This time, they’ve actually managed to create [...]
Public Domain Movie Torrents with PDA versions
Public Domain Movie Torrents with PDA versions > Classic Movies and B-Movies Movies For FREE! 531 movies available for download with BitTorrent, free & legal due to expired copyrights. Lots of great B-Movies, and even some old Ninja flicks. Woho! Most movies are available in several formats, including iPod & PDA sizes.